Russia’s news confusion meets West's post-crisis challenge

By Chris Zappone
Updated December 19 2014 - 4:08pm, first published 3:55pm

Historians will dwell on the irony. As Russia's propaganda machine jolts back to life, flooding the Western world with curated hoo-hah, a popular notion in Russia is that these days everything is PR. The same cynical idea can be described as a symptom of the post-Great Recession West, a time in which what sells threatens to be confused with democratic consent, and the power of wealth tests the power of the rule of law.

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